Michael Grosser recently released Vendorer, a Bundler-like application for documenting, updating, and maintaining your Ruby applications’ 3rd party resources. This would be for things like JS frameworks, plugins, or any other libraries that aren't gems.

Sachin Sagar Rai wrote up some good instructions on how to setup Jenkins-Continuous Integration on Ubuntu for your Rails apps. His directions even walk you through how to setup access to private Github repos and do Github callbacks to trigger builds when checkins occur.

Dealing with user preferences on your web applications can be a pain (especially when there's lots of them). Dan Knox recently created the Cookie Tracker Gem which makes it really simple to store view preference in cookies, and easily have them available as instance variables in the controller & views.

The Presto web framework was recently created by Silviu Rusu, who set out to write a wrapper around Rack that adds as low overhead as possible. Silviu claims Presto only adds 25 to 30% overhead. So if Rakc performs at 6000 requests, Presto will perform at around 4000 requests.

Today at Code School we're releasing the first level of our new CoffeeScript course for free, so if you want to learn a little CoffeeScript or even test your skills head over to CoffeeScript.CodeSchool.com.

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